From Ignatius Okpara, Owerri (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Imo state chapter of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has suffered another setback, as its publicity Secretary, Mr. Damian Opara on Thursday resigned his membership from the party and joined the ruling All progressive Congress (APC). He announced his resignation via a letter he addressed to the state chairman of […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Abia, on Thursday, dissolved the state executive committee (EXCO) and replaced it with a caretaker committee. The dissolution was coming in the wake of the expiration of the four years of the EXCO headed by Chief Johnson Onuigbo from Abia Central Senatorial District. The Acting Publicity […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The People’s Democratic Party (PDP), has called on the National Assembly to scrutinise the overall profile of the N500 billion proposed by the Federal Government as intervention fund against COVID-19. The party, in a statement issued by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, on Saturday in Abuja, said the call was […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Mr Simeon Abuh, husband of late Mrs Salome Abuh, a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Woman Leader in Kogi, has called on the Federal Government to ensure justice and compensation for his family. Abuh made the call at a news conference by the family on Thursday, in Abuja, to update the public on […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Enugu state chapter of the opposition All progressive congress APC, has rejected result of last Saturday’s local government election in the state in which the ruling People’s Democratic party PDP was declared winner, describing the exercise as a complete “sham and electoral fraud” Chairman of Enugu state independent Electoral […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Abakaliki ….Orders their Immediate Arrest too (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Following their alleged involvement in the gruesome murder of one Mr. Enyinnaya Ibiam, a member of the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi state, during the party’s councillorship primary election held on February 21, 2020, the state governor, David Umahi, has sacked two […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, says the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Sen Diri Douye will not be sworn in as the new governor of Bayelsa State because he does have the required votes spread across the state as stipulated by the constitution. Mr […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The leadership and members of the Nigeria’s main opposition party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the National Assembly (NASS) on Friday, protested at the embassies of the United States (US) and the United Kingdom (UK) in Abuja. The protest was led by the National Chairman of PDP National Chairman, Uche Secondus. The […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Owerri (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Less than 48 hours that the Imo state chairman of the opposition People’s Democratic party PDP, Chief Charles Ezekwem, defected to the All Progressive Congress, APC, eight members of the state Assembly elected under the party have followed suit, as they dumped the PDP for the ruling party. The […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Sokoto State Governor Aminu Tambuwal, has succeeded his outgoing Bayelsa State counterpart, Seriake Dickson as the chairman of the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum. This confirmation was made in a statement issued Monday by a Special Adviser to Governor Tambuwal, Mr Mohammad Bello. The statement added that the choice of Governor […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidates as the winners of the re-run elections for Sokoto North/Sokoto South and Isa/Sabon-Birni Federal Constituencies of Sokoto State. Alhaji Abubakar Abdullahi of PDP defeated the incumbent lawmaker, Alhaji Bala Hassan of All Progressives Congress (APC) with 68,985 votes […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Chairmanship aspirant under the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in the forthcoming local government election in Enugu State, South- East Nigeria, Mr. Agbo Amos Amadi, has dragged the party to court, following the alleged refusal of the party to sell nomination form to him. The chairmanship […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The All Progressive Congress (APC), Sokoto state chapter on Tuesday told Gov. Aminu Tambuwal to stop hiding under International donor intervention projects to cover his poor performance. Alhaji Isa Sadiq-Achida, the state APC Chairman made the call at a press conference on the current happenings in the state. He described the state’s […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – Chief Raymond Dokpesi, a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has denied rumours making the round that he has decamped to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Addressing party supporters in Agenebode, Estako East Local Government Area (LGA) of Edo on Tuesday, Dokpesi said those who left the party alongside Pastor […]
From Ignatius Okpara, Enugu (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – There are strong indications that ex-Nigeria’s President of the Senate, Chief Ken Nnamani, of the ruling All Progress Congress, APC, may have concluded arrangements to return to his former party, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. Nnamani, who defected to the APC, ahead of the 2019 general election, was made Vice […]
(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – All Progressives Congress (APC) in Bayelsa has urged Gov. Seriake Dickson, to stop threatening the state and trying to raise tension following the electoral defeat of his preferred candidate. APC advised Dickson to tow the path of democracy and rule of law by taking his grievances to the court. Mr. Doifie Buokoribo, […]
By Ganiyu Nasirudeen The opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has started reacting to the arrest last Friday by the ant-graft body, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of one its Chieftains, former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, saying the move was aimed at weakening the party and distract it from wrestling power in 2019 […]
By Ignatius Okpara, Enugu A Socio -political association based in South- East Nigeria, under the umbrella of Njiko Igbo Forum, has described the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, leaders as coward and bunch of ingrates. The group, while reacting to PDP’s zoning of its 2019 Presidential ticket to the North, said it was a height […]
APC Inciting Violence In Kogi, Bayelsa To Disrupt Polls – PDP The opposition Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) has alleged that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is inciting violence in Kogi and Bayelsa states with a view to cause confusion, frustrate the electoral process and possibly impede the forthcoming governorship elections in the states. The […]
By Ayo Balogun, Abuja BALTIMORE, MD (AFRICAN EXAMINER) – With less than two months to the governorship election in Kogi State, an advocacy group in All Progressives Congress (APC), Positive Transformation Ambassadors (POTRAM), has condemned the alarming rate of infrastructural decay in Kogi State, with a call on the Kogites to make a statement with […]
